No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
Wasting time is negative, but there is something positive about idleness. — Russell Lynes Idleness Copy Share Image
Clutter is what happens to things when they become useless but friendly. — Russell Lynes Clutter Copy Share Image
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. — Russell Lynes Appreciative Copy Share Image
I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more… — Russell Lynes Goal Copy Share Image
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the highbrows are the elite, the middlebrows are the… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
For all its flexibility, television is more a mirror of taste than a shaper of it. — Russell Lynes Flexibility Copy Share Image
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives the pictures on your walls, quick but… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
“the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether… — Russell Lynes Advertising Copy Share Image
A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each… — Russell Lynes Art Copy Share Image
There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers,… — Russell Lynes Bears Copy Share Image
The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is… — Russell Lynes Arrogant Copy Share Image
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today? — Russell Lynes Effort Copy Share Image
“Every journalist has a novel inside him, which is an excellent place for it.” — Russell Lynes Books Copy Share Image
Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. — Russell Lynes Brain Copy Share Image
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. — Russell Lynes Books Copy Share Image
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. — Russell Lynes Addiction Copy Share Image
Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission. — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
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